Zina’s Status Reports

Since my last status report, I made a lot of progress on my portion of the project, but also encountered some unexpected challenges. I tested out the PCBs that we received by hooking up some LEDs to a breadboarded circuit and ran the Arduino code …

This week, we received the parts we ordered from DigiKey for our Traffic Light Circuit, and I placed the order for our custom PCB after making a couple of small adjustments to the Arduino pin assignments and silkscreen text placements. The fabricated PCB should be arriving …

This was a productive week for me, as I was able to catch up on the things that I was a bit behind on. The biggest accomplishment of the week was completing the PCB layout. There are a couple of silkscreen labels that I want …

This week I was focused on doing the layout for our custom PCB that connects the ArduinoUNO to the 12 traffic-light-simulation LEDs via a Texas Instruments LED driver. This is my first time doing PCB layout myself, so it was a bit challenging at first …

Given that the Design Report was due this week, we had to lock in a lot of the details that we were uncertain about up until now. The process of writing the report was very helpful and made us think critically about the more challenging …

This week we were still in a very preliminary phase of researching/purchasing/planning before we can begin work on our implementation. We settled on the IP camera to order, ordered it, and reserved an RPi. I also did some research on Addressable LED Arduino projects and …